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Random Male and Female name generator

Generates random male and female names with real-world probability. (Well the occurrence of first name and last names, not the combination of the two).

Useful for generating test data for, err testing purposes.

Install

Dev:

pip install -e git+https://github.com/macropin/random-name-generator.git#egg=name_generator

Prod:

pip install git+https://github.com/macropin/random-name-generator.git

Then download the data set from www2.census.gov/topics/genealogy/1990surnames/ and place the three files, (dist.all.last, dist.female.first, dist.male.first) in ./data.

Usage Examples

./name_generator.py -u -m 10
./name_generator.py -m 10 -f 10
./name_generator.py -r 20
./name_generator.py -u -i -r 10

-- Andrew Cutler

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